PUB00089

• Year: 1980
• Title: Upper Colorado Resource Study: Colorado and Utah - Concluding Report May 1980
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Author: R. Keith Higginson, Commissioner
• Description: Study to determine expected increases of water needs for energy-related developments along White and Yampa Rivers
• Publications - Doc Type: Tech Report

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Chapter V

Chapter VI

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CONTENTS (Continued)

Problems and needs.
Industrial water
Oil shale . .
Coal. . . . .
Hydroelectric peaking power
Municipal and domestic water .
Irrigation . . . . . . . . . .
Fish and wildlife and recreation
Preservation of existing values.
Potential water development . . . .
Identified storage sites . . . .
Potential Federal development plans.
Yellow Jacket Unit.
Lower Yampa Unit.
NED Plan . . . .
EQ Plan. . . .. ..
Possible private development
Upper Yampa Unit. .
Non-Federal proposals in the
White River drainage .
Carter Oil Company. .
The South Fork-Piceance Pipeline and
Stillwater Reservoir Project .
The Ryan Gulch Reservoir and White River
Pumping Pipeline Project . . . . . .
The Roan Plateau Pumping Pipeline and
Terminal Reservoir Project . . .
The Fourteen Mile Reservoir and
White River-Fourteen Mile Creek
Pipeline Project . . .
The South Fork Reservoir and South
Fork Pipeline Project.
The White River Pipeline No. 2 Project
The Cow Creek and Ridge Site Reservoirs.
Gulf-Standard Yellow Creek Project.
Rocky Mountain Power Company and
Rio Blanco Oil Shale Project.
The Oil Shale Corporation
Mobil Oil Corporation
The Flattops Project. . .
The Rangely Project . . .
White River Resources, Inc.
Elk-Rifle Water Supply Project,
Atlantic Richfield Company. . .
Superior Oil Company. . . . . .
Industrial Resources, Inc. . . . . . "
State of Utah White River Dam Project ....

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